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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other.
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.
It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.
And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
And Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? it had been good for me to have been there still: now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be any iniquity in me, let him kill me.
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:
LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
